election next year thank you of course you get letters from little boys and girls from all over the world these drones just from here in europe produce this from us what's come from from paris from a little boy who says this well all of his famous friends keep running off and leaving him. it would be great if this year a new more super rich followed jerrod deputy you and left france we really need their seventy five percent income taxes if we are to stay with the likes of angola and not find ourselves in the same trouble as demetrius thank you francois hollande . oh right well this one comes from a little boy who has been on the naughty list in the past but he insists he's going to be good in the future. i sound here's the thing i want to be prime minister again i know there were some problems last time however now i'm ready to step back in leave this lead to success quite possibly out of the euro sincerely silvio berlusconi well we'll have to wait to see if their christmas wishes come true but santa did you get my letter yes was i on the nice list you're on minority list. peter all of a

will have parliamentary elections in the first round of course the votes people voted in fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution analysts believe that this will be another yes votes this is largely because of the seventeen governorates voting today many of them a rule cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite a strong support base of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the presidential or in the presidential elections leading many to believe that this will in fact be yes votes the opposition forces for their part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was due to vote rigging rights groups did document several cases of electoral violations including unsupervised polling stations leaving both rights groups on the opposition forces to call for a rerun of the first round of the referendum saying it is actually not in boyd's issue judicial supervision remains a point of contention here that judges continue to boycott the referendum really will just have to see the outcome of the results as they come in later on

yesterday said the real problem is that republicans won't admit the president won the election and that tax rates are going up. take a listen. >> on taxes, i know it's hard for the republicans, but the president ran on that platform, 250, no tax increase for people below, but taxes for people above, he won 60% of the voters said they were for it in the exit polls, including some republicans. >> reporter: all eyes now turning to the possibility since speaker john boehner was not able to get enough republican votes to move forward with a plan late last week, that maybe now the senate will have to workout a compromise between harry reid, mitch mcconnell the democratic and republican leaders, and the president who is here in hawaii when you talk to his staff they say it's very likely some time after spending christmas with his family, whether it's the middle or later part of this week he's likely to head back to washington to sit down with congressional leaders and try to work this out. >> reporter: it's a bit encouraging for a lot of folks who were wondering about that question. i'm c

relations. >> italy's prime minister has resigned. this move paves the way for elections to be held as early as february. mario monti has promised to hand in his resignation -- or had promised to hand in his resignation as soon as parliament passed a 2013 budget, which he led his -- kept his promise. he led a government of technocrats for the past year. europeans had held his economic reforms, but voters have been less impressed with his austerity measures. for more on this now, we are joined now on the phone by our correspondent. what now? >> the president will be consulting with the leaders of political parties over the next day or so. to get their advice as we head towards elections, and he is expected then to dissolve parliament and call elections february 24. that is the date people believe most likely will be the date of the vote. >> what is the move of italians right now? would berlusconi actually have any chance with voters? >> the extraordinary thing is that despite his being really comprehensively discredited in the eyes of the rest of the world, a lot of italians seem pre

-election and as we saw in the senate race in kentucky a few years ago, he may have to worry about a challenge from the right if he supports a tax increase. i think president obama is doing the only sane thing he can, which is reach out to the speaker and he controls the house and, that is -- and the good news for the president is the public seems by all the polls, by the fact the election came out the way it did, to be in his corner, not the speaker's. >> rick: the president -- you want to weigh in on that? >> i just -- >> rick: americans are in favor of raising taxes on the wealthiest americans and, the president did win, november 6th. >> we have seen polls that say that, they approve tax reform and want to see real entitlement reform and want to get spending under control. but, president obama has failed to bring anything up to the -- on the table, and, especially the democrats, they have been silently on entitlement reform and silent on the spending cuts and as we know, we can talk about raising taxes on the rich. but, you know, it is like having a dad with a college daughter and

election they got very scared and they said we'll vote against the party leadership. >> that could have emboldened them. >> so the speaker is trying to punish them and those that were the outliars as you were describing here. that didn't work and they started to work against them and the question will be what will work? >> it is not clear that there is anything that will work other than as bill points out, having their constituents not support that type of behavior that sort of -- i like to call the hell no caucus. you can't get these guys to yes. if their constituents get to the point that they're angry, then maybe they should start voting with the party. and it's not just speaker john boehner. he was not the one sort of leading the rabble of the one leading it, he did serve on the panel and he wasn't personally the force behind that. can the speaker ignore these groups because based on what we're seeing so far they're working against him. >> he can't ignore them and what the president has to do is simply peel off 26 or more republicans to get something passed. the problem here is

most valuable untapped agricultural areas in the country. but kenya just months away from an election. experts say this is about power and money. >> it is really about politics and the forthcoming election. and it's about numbers. you have a grouping in which the community and the fight or the struggle or the contest for and political dominance as far as the next elections are concerned. >> what happened on friday is all too similar in villages in august and september. more than 100 people were killed and thousands were forced to leave their homes. it was the worst fighting since the election five years ago. poll -- the electoral commission have identified 27 hot spots around the country where they say there could be potential violence during the election. >> the conflict between these two warring communities could grow. >> to egypt now where there have been violent clashes between rival protestors in alexandria. the demonstrators square off on the constitution. the final vote on the draft is scheduled this saturday. >> buses and several cars were set on fire. they were -- belonged to

mission by the head of the presidential elections again president obama mostly people think unless you're saying it's most likely to be a yes the opposition forces that passes saying that there is many instances of electoral violations right streets of also chimed in today releasing reports on the hour all the different electoral violations including missing but it judges not supervising polling stations and ballots going missing is that many believe maybe a vote rigging which would see a yes vote in the end the biggest news of the day however is the resignation of the vice president mohamed necchi this is largely seen to be perhaps because in the draft constitution as it currently stands there is no code for the vice president although an official reason was given for his resignation many believe this is a strong sign to the president they believe the constitution will be yes because his post does not exist here in cairo people are just waiting and the feeling is still very very tense here i mean the background to the violence the last month we saw quite violent scenes in alexandria egyp

compromise and give and sacrifice and act responsibly than their elected representatives are. there's a mismatch right now between how everybody else is thinking about these problems, democrats and republicans, outside of this town and how folks are operating here, and we've just got to get that aligned. nobody can get 100% of what they want, and this is not simply a contest between parties in terms of who looks good and who doesn't. >> david corn, that is the sentiment that i made reference to a moment ago. that's what i hear most on a day-to-day basis. they say, my god, why can't they be adults and hash out a deal. >> let's be fair here. the president is talking about congress, but the real issue is republican house members, not even republican senators. he's doing what he often does in these negotiations, he's being soft in his opposition at this point in time. he also mentioned he's still talking to john bane eroehner, think he still has faith or hope. he didn't whack boehner or make a distinction between democrats and republicans. he sort of vaguely -- he attacked the vague congres

reporting the results of south korea's presidential election than they've been in the past. the brief reports thursday, the day after the election, and friday. they say park of the conservative ruling party had won a tight race by a small margin. compare that with what happened five years ago. north korea waited to report the results 2 1/2 months after election day. analysts say north korea is maintaining a caution attitude over the election of another conservative leader in the south. they say quicker reporting this time shows that they are responding more calmly than five years ago and are looking for the right time to try to resume dialogue with counterparts in seoul, aimed at obtaining food aid and economic cooperation. >>> japan's incoming prime minister shinzo abe will send a special envoy to meet with south korea's new leader. >> translator: i'm sending former finance minister to south korea to improve relations between our countries. >> abe says he will visit south korea and deliver a personal letter from abe to park. he'll deliver a personal letter from abe to park. park said

after disputed general elections with the clashes centered in the west valley and the capital. more than 1000 people were killed. officials are working hard to avoid a repeat during next march's presidential election, but these episodes of violence around the country are raising fears that parts of kenya macy violence during the voting period. >> now to the ongoing negotiations to prevent the so- called fiscal cliff we have mentioned. there are just 10 days to go until this potentially damaging combination of tax increases and spending cuts goes into effect, but so far, the politicians seem no closer to averting the plunge. president obama is pressing for action. he had this to say just a few minutes ago. >> i just spoke to speaker boehner and i also met with senator reid. i have asked the leaders of congress to prevent tax hikes on middle-class americans, protect unemployment insurance for 2 million americans, and lay the groundwork for further work. that is an achievable goal. that can get down in 10 days. >> president obama there on the upcoming fiscal cliff. joining me now to di

former senator scott brown who lost his seat to elizabeth warren in the november elections. >>> thank you so much for watching "state of the union." have a safe holiday season. i'm candy crowley in washington. head to cnn.com/sotu for extras. for all of us at state of the union, again, we want to wish you a merry christmas and happy holiday season. fareed zakaria "gps" is next for our viewers here in the united states. >>> this is "gps" the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. on the show today, we'll move past the fiscal cliff and talk about the real challenges to the economy. i will talk to the chief economic adviser of the romney campaign and president obama's former budget czar peter orzack, among others. >>> also, let me tell you about the biggest success story in latin america. it's not brazil. much closer to home. then, as the world watches the arab world struggle with democracy, we'll take a look at the problem from an unusual perspective, upside down. how does a country turn away from democracy as eastern e

this is part of the story of the 2012 election and maybe the never several elections. sam wang had an accurate forecasting model. he sent us a cartoon rather than a chart. he weighed in on the attacks being launched as people like us who are using data to talk about the election. it says quote, breaking, to surprise a sun dit the best system for determining which of two things is wiser. we posted these charts and a bunch of others. i'll tweet a link to them. that does it for tonight. and now it is time for the last word. have a good night. >> the house of representatives. has known for over a year that it has a monday night deadline for avoiding the fiscal cliff. so when are they going to start working on that? sunday night. >> stalemate gridlock joorks this is what the holidays look like. >> there is so much manure around here. >> this isn't school house rock. >> the fiscal cliff. whatever. >> there is barely 00 hours. >> the last minute was before christmas. >> what is going on here? is. >> how come there is no sense of urgency. >> the entire house coming back sunday night. >> ho

presidential elections leaving many to believe that this will in fact be yes votes the opposition forces for their part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was due to vote rigging really will just have to see the outcome of the results as they come in later on today in the early hours of tomorrow morning but definitely people expect by their own rest in the streets either way that both sides refused to back down. a five hundred dollars penalty for desecrating corpses coming up no jail time just a demotion and a cut on his friends list it's good to know that i don't soldier. also ahead of britain's increasingly cold feet of the new membership why it's rattling nerves across the atlantic. the lower house of parliament in moscow has passed a bill banning all adoptions of russian children by americans as part of a larger document aimed at preventing human rights abuses of russians abroad my teacher karen looks at the cases which raise the alarm with the makers of. the adoption agreement that russia and the us signed in november was designed to provide mechani

progress towards democracy after the conditions drop so they say we will have parliamentary elections neither side seems to be backing down so we expect their own rests in the streets of egypt. on the first day job the referendum saw the majority supported the charter so what are the expectations for saturday's round them. in the first round of course the votes of people voted to fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution and this believe that this will be another yes votes this is largely because of the seventeen governorates voting today many of the rule are cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite a strong support base of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the president or in the presidential elections leading many to believe that this will in fact be a yes vote the opposition forces for their part say that the only reason that was a yes vote in the first round was vote rigging rights groups did document several cases of electoral violations including unsupervised polling stations leaving both rights groups on the opposition fo

act responsibly than their elected representatives are. there's a mismatch right now between how everybody else is thinking about these problems. democrats and republicans. outside of this town and how folks are operating here. we've just got to get that aligned. nobody can get a hundred percent of what they want. and this is not simply a contest between parties in terms of who looks good and who doesn't. >> david corn, that is the eference to moments ago. that's what i hear on a day-to-day basis. people are critical on the rs and the ds and say my god, why can't they be adults and hash out a deal here? >> the real issue is republy lan house members. not even republican senators. he's doing what he often does, he's being soft on the opposition at this point in time. he also mentioned he was talking to john boehner. i think he still has some faith here -- or hope. so in a statement today, he didn't really whack boehner at all. he didn't make the distinction between democrats and republicans and just attacked the vague congress. but at the end of the day, it's quite clear that he c

states they won't admit international election observers to polling stations do you like that. then why do you choose this kind of language with a law such as cannibalistic you have adopted a child and i truly respect that and i hope that many more people will follow your example if you really are a decent person to get it done that it's true and i know what i'm saying for us or our judiciary which may be excessively scrupulous when examining adoption applications it largely depends upon the personal qualities of a judge presiding over a specific case. but i remember how my good friend and former counterpart used their gerhard schroder and opted to wrestle children when it came to court in st petersburg but the judge asked them specifically how does he were elder the daughter if you will about the job. and when the girl replied why would anybody ask my opinion the judge insisted i'm asking your opinion if you don't want it i will not permit it she did that makes a lot of sense because each family member must make their personal decision and the judicial system essentially relies upon th

polls he is likely to win the next parliamentary election so these kind of statements are playing into an election that is safe to happen about a month from now at the same time has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you receive them is the term. capital of the state of israel and will continue to build there a united ireland he said places a wide national agreement and so i think this is the kind of sentiment that is feeding into the israeli public and then there is of course some school of thought that points back to two thousand and five when the israelis withdrew from settlements in the gaza strip with some critics asking whether or not all of the fear at the moment will ultimately lead to the same kind of conclusion the question mark over whether or not in the future israel will have to withdraw from the settlements that it is announcing today it's planning on building. and as parliamentary elections are fast approaching some experts say there's going to be much more talk about settlements settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of

decisions without going back to . festered so it empowers other son just as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. the democratic elections and it's gone from the fog used to be to become the majority what would happen if these islamist parties could not get on the phone this is the bulk have to get into about the security about the going on the conditions i think what will happen the people who will vote against them if you looked at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections seventy percent voted for this the most buzz of. and independent elections at all and fifty one percent of the vote is declining and going down mainly because they are not for them and opposition anymore they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just promise was the end not delivered so now people have said expectations and they can control the politicians by voting but middle east history professor lawrence davidson says the opposition has a reason to be concerned i think that the opposition barring democracy differently than the islam. if you look at them ocracy in the

leadership abilities? joseph kabila, who was recently elected in 2011, which many characterized as a rigged election -- what do we know about the current president, and why do we support leaders in africa to exploit their citizens and the poverty that in sue's makes them more susceptible -- ensues makes them more susceptible to extremist elements, like al-qaeda? you will receive 100 virgins when you do the suicide attack, and whatnot. how can we get ourselves out of this, america? somebody talk to me, please. >> i think you are right. this is part of a generation of african leaders that are not going to move their countries forward. this is an issue of economic freedom. y have the opportunity,rtunit we're going to keep coming back here. from my perspective, mr. affleck is sitting on the far right, but i am okay with that. [applause] >> to ask the question about the character of joseph kabila -- i first met him in 2001. he came to me with secretary powell, and they sat in the secretary's office soldier to soldier. joseph kabila laid out a vision of what he wanted for his government. that was

honorees at the white house. after that, pulling in the presidential election. then, an event about women in leadership. >> next, a tribute to this year's kennedy center honorees at the white house reception. individual awards are given to individuals for their lifetime achievement in performing arts. this year, best of hoffman and david letterman. -- dustin hoffman and david letterman. [applause] >> david letterman. >> natalia mackarova. [applause] >> led zepliln. [applause] -- led zeplin. ♪ >> ladies and of lead, the president of the united states and mrs. michelle obama. [applause] >> hello. hello. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you. thank you. great. everybody please have a seat. thank you. good evening, everybody. you all look lovely. welcome to the white house on a night when i am no where close to being the main attraction. thank you, david rubenstein, michael kaiser, and the kennedy center trusties and everyone who has worked so hard to hold president kennedy's commitment to supporting the arts. i also want to recognize another one of president k

of honor. in 1959 when hawaii chief state hood he was elected the state's first full member of the house of representatives. three years later in 1962 he was elected to the u.s. senate where he would serve for five decades, the second longest tenure in this chambers history. i am honored to have served with him throughout my entire senate service. while he and i often found oufferses on different sides on issues, i always knew him to be a man of principle and deenssi. one of the few times we found ourselves on the same side came when the late senator ted stevens asked us for help when his character was called into question. now politically speaking participating in senator stevens trial held no benefit for senator inouye. it would have been easy for senator inouye to deny his friends question and few would have blamed him for it. but that's not how he operated. rather than letting a friend fend for himself he showed great loyalty in his willing tons testify to his friend's good character, to put his own reputation on the line in service of a friend. and i had a similar privilege. o

leadership? >> it has been lacking without doubt and look, kudos to you for holding elected officials feet to the fire. my party and colleagues and myself included it is frustrating as a house member. i can't be a house member and senator and president all at once. the house has led. we have tried to be the party of ideas. the body of ideas. as you know this summer we passed a bill to keep tax rates low for everyone. it has been dead in the senate. harry reid won't take it up. after the election john boehner got criticism even from my party saying look, mr. president we will meet you halfway and give you the $800 billion in revenue and the president doubles the number. then last week he said all right let's try and get as many after hostages out alive and try as keep taxes from going up and we couldn't get a single democrat to join with us on a single bill introduced this summer which was saving all taxpayers a million dollars and below from the tax rates going on. not a single democrat would join with us. this didn't a problem of two well intentioned negotiators not able to come up w

not their problem. in fact, this country was founded on the principle that we elect a congress to make it their problem, to make it their concern and to go out and do something about it. >> john nichols, you and your family have a great christmas. great to have you with us here tonight. >> and to you as well. >> i'm going to be taking a few days off next week. you bet, my friend. eric michael dyson will be doing the show. we'll be having a wonderful christmas at my t schultz household. my wife wendy has finished their chemotherapy. she is on the road to recovery, or should i say she is cured. we are so thankful. it's been a rough six months. but we are together, and that is the main thing. this is "the ed show" for r for this year. i'm ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right thought. >> a merry, merry, merry, merry christmas to you. you guys have had a hell of a year. >> thanks, rachel. you have a merry christmas. >> thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. ahead of this holiday weekend, on a day when the world of news didn't slow down for the holiday week

push something through. doing that would weaken him even further. he still needs to be elected speaker on january 3rd. if you're boehner, you let this thing slide past january 3rd, getting yourself elected, and then do what you have to do. >> will he be stronger in. >> he won't be stronger. there will be about eight more democrats. >> really it's his caucus. >> but he'll be speaker again. if it does it, then you have a couple days to consider -- if he gets reelected and is speaker again, then it's much more trouble to unseed somebody who is already sitting there as the speaker than it is to stop him from running in the first place. >> if i could add to what ryan is saying, the only thing is he'll be proposing to his caucus a tax cut. everybody changes on january 3rd. you're no longer talking about some people getting a tax increase. harry reid and john boehner for instance said -- the speaker saying the senate should take it up. harry reid is speaking on the floor. let's take a listen. >> because americans' taxes are approaching the wrong direction come the first of this year, american